Cross-site scripting in SocksJS-node

Description

htmlfile in lib/transport/htmlfile.js in SockJS before 0.3.0 is vulnerable to Reflected XSS via the /htmlfile c (aka callback) parameter.

Recommendation

Update the sockjs package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.3.0
• Patched version(s): 0.3.0

References

• GHSA-hh8v-jmh3-9437
• snyk.io
• www.sockjs.org
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2020-8823
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• tRPC 11 WebSocket DoS Vulnerability - CVE-2025-43855
• DocsGPT Allows Remote Code Execution - CVE-2025-0868
• Signature Malleabillity in elliptic - CVE-2020-13822
• Joplin Vulnerable to Code Injection - CVE-2022-23340

Tags:

npm

sockjs